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Show mnmiwiM.il, od designs. Mans moral nature Is the rudder by which his actions are guided. EDUCATION. bt w. aij. While tliis subjict lias been Britten upon a great many times, and by a great many writer who are far more aide to treat the subject than I, it may be that I can picture 5t In snrh a light that some of yonr readers will get a new idi a or dell e tome benefit tie refrorn. It U hard to define edneatlon In auch a way that all will accept the definition. Write bar a discussed at length what th fra end of education Is, and they have proponed very different definition of the subject. The reason for tills I ohrlon. Education, unlike any other, obart, has a large and cosspr-bensl: tuuulu o To d Tla help 'd.Ujjo ject, In certain definite form, no lest complex a thing than a human being with his tart out physical, intellectual, and moral capabilities, ao as to fit him to fulfil his highest function and destiny. Howerer, I wilt attempt to define education, In snch a general way, that nearly all will be forced to accept my definition. Education seeks by social stiuiulons, guidance and control to develop the natural pow ers of the child, so as to render him able and disposed to lead a healthy, happy, and morally worthy life. It ran be rwdiiy 9"en from the above definition that education I aiming at the formation of faculty! that is, it has to do with the drawing out, or developing, the mind in its activities, instead of putting spinetliing into the wind. The educator should seek to train the faculties, rather than cram the mind with a lot of disconnected facts. Learning to read, write, etc., Is not obtaining an education, but merely preparing ones self with the means by which he may obtain an education. Unless his faculties be so trained tlmt he can soiv the great proldems that lie imbeded in natnre, as all great thinkers or reasoners have done, he will have to be content with merely training his mind by committing to Memory some of the great truths of nature, which some other bright, intelligent mind has reasoned out, or else plod through Ufe without kuow-fti- g anything about the many beauties which surround him. As life is so short it will be but a very small per ciyit. of the many truths Of nature that a person an memorize. Besides this draw-bacI consider brain energy, or brain power, too valuable to bo wasted iu such a way. Then, again, if ail were to follow the acheme of committing to memory instead of reasoning, the world would com to a stand-stilor more likely, it would deas we could get no further than generate, we now are but on tlie other hand, were we to prepare our minds bo that we could olve those great problems, we need not stop where we are at present, but go on solving new problems. By taking this course, the people living in future ages would perhaps refer to the , present as the dark ages." f 1 will here draw out a plan or scheme 1 Akat la, I, fl 1tIU0 it undur its proper headings, as I underre l, stand it. . In conclusion, I will compare education to a torrent rushing down a mountain side. If the wati rs he controlled properly, they become the means of doing much good. They may be made to turn the lmnl r, machinery that manufactures flour, clothes, etc., besides moistening tlie earth that the vegetable kingdom may grow, it being one of the main etais or supports of life. But on the otlur hand, if It to not controlled, it may lay wa-t- e fields of grain, dtiuolish cities and villages, snd, In fact, leave nothing but desolation sod destruction in its path. HOW TO LIVE LONG. Th Corn Poms-- il b, I.vplr Who Hare flUfco days ayo tho hero of tho hour In France was M. Chevreu!, who has Juflt completed tho first century of his existence; and a leto in his honor was celebrated in tho botanical gardens of Palis. To what does this emirmt man attribute his great age? To tha action of coff-- in proventmg waste of system, and to ins moderation in eating. Jn addition to coffee, he has Indulged id warm baths, lie has always, it is reported, had a repugnance to fish and to vegetables; but he likes onions and fruits. Wine he has never tasted. But other tldnra besides diet ..... to idvcntrvtcai's '00.5' i . bv: c ybe 8ovvh Jwev-- - - - -- y life; iiBt, he had a good begnning. jin Many expedition have been fitted out ; to explore the north pole of late years, ancestors wero healthy and moreover he never found money hard bui tiie south pole has been entirely neg- to If m I, get and heavy to hold. lected by scientific searchers after geo- born with a silver spoon in his mouth, graphical glory. It has en nearly fifty he was certa nly well provided for, hail little trouble years since any exploring party has at- and he seems to have in tlie world. to fathom the the mysteries of tempted But M. Chevreul does not dogmatize south pole. like some other men who have There are two or three south pole ex- achieved lenth pf days. A lew seem peditions being talked of in Europe at to think their own method of living the present time, and one Is being fitted and working the Lest for all other The Abbe Moigno, a famous out in America. There are various mys- men. French for instance, exteries connected witli the south pole claimed: scientist, How happy would those which scientists expect to elucidate bv be who should adopt my regime. He these expeditions. The point aimed at, attributed his powers of work and his and where the explorations will probuldy old age to abstinonce from tobacco, meat, to the habit of never commence, is Victoria I.and, lying within eating little I shall do, nor "1 am doing, saying the Antarctic circle immediately south of but I have dono, and to the fivet Australia. that ho added a drop of rum to his As we may expect to hear something coffee! The experience of M. Mignet, another from tlie southern regions in the near fuwho wn3 the oldest ture, it may be interesting to our readers octogenarian, member of the Fronch Academy, difto know Hometiling of what has been fers slightly from the industrious done in that direction in tlie pat. For savant, lie ascribes bis extreme old this reason we have compiled a short age to sobriety in eating and drinking, the habit of long walks, constant and sketch of the Antarctic expeditious. The first navigator who passed Cape congenial work, early hours, and perfect contentment with a small Horn, led by a spirit of discovery and investigation, was Captain Frezier, who Extraordinary are the reasons assignwas sent by the King of France into ed by some people for their great ago. these frozen regions in 1710. He was Referring to M. Chevreul, a Paris cortlie first to give ail account of the south- respondent says he can see no special merit in a 100 years. ern lights. There are some striking "The other mans living I was day, he says, tlie between of difference northern points shown an ancient angler who is 105 and the southern lights, though the elec- years old, and who has been teasing tric display at both poles seem to occur the gudgeons in the River Itance for nearly a century past. at the same time. This worthy ohl Frenchman atAbout 1771, Bougainville was sent to bis great age to fishing with tributes establish a colony in tlie Maloeeines is- a rod and line, and says that if every for a hundred lands, just south of tlie straits of Magel-le- one would go with instructions to explore tlie years or so very few would die young! Lord Marchmont, the friend of the regions farther to the south, and poet Pope, lived to the age of 80. In Kerguelen was sent to perform a similar reply to a question as to his habits, task to tlie southeast of tlie Cape of Hood he explained that be had laid down Hope. During this voyage Kerguelen when young one maxim to which he discovered the Kerguelen island. It Is a rigidly adhered, and to which he atbarren island, utterly useless for human tributed much of his good health. What was that? To rise with the habitation. It high mountain tops, cov- lark? No. To go to bed sober? No. cliered with perpetual snow, makes tlie To live on one meal a day? No. It mate insenseiy cold even for this latitude, was, never to mix his wines. Not less curious is the reason about 50 degrees south, but when he return'd to France, lie represented tlie is- given by a certain Canon Bleadon, who reached 100 years by the Bimple land as a paradise. A short time after, jreenution of wearing an overcoat! It lie was sent with another expedition to s recorded by another centenarian a blit with further explore the Island; that he had never eaten cold meat, view to keeping tho true condition of the and by this abstinence be had saved island from being known, ho would not jug digestion from premature exhaustion. allow ouq of the party to land, lie From h Land of Cakes we have igated the island and returned to but equally unFrance. The truth afterwards becoming equally interesting, satisfactory, explanations of long life. known, he was tried by a court martial, A Scotch newspaper recently announcdeprived of ills rank and sentenced to ed tho death of four centenaiians in Of one it is stated, Durprison, but w as pardoned by Louis XVI. Morayshire. her long life she took on other ing shortly after. medicine than sulphur and infused In 1772, Captain Cook left Plymouth blackberry leaves, to which she atwith the lnteutlou of exploring tlie coun- tributed her perfect state of health try around tlie south pole. 11c passed and longevity." There is one case on record which the winter on the Islands near New Zeawould seem to prove that even duty land, and the follow lag summer went hnbits are not unfavorable to longevfarther south, penetrating nearly to the ity. An Edinburg paper of February, polar circle, ami discovered several Is- 1771, reports thedeath of a Montrose woman in her 107th year. Her neighlands in and around the Polar Sea. A few - i long-lived- b-- Education may first bo brought under two headings, viz : Physical and mental. Under physical education, a thorough knowledge of the two sciences, physiology and hygienoi or in other words (as some of my younger readers will perhaps better understand) a knowledge of the function of the different parts of the body, together with the laws that govern health, Is very essential. A thorough knowledge of those two sciences, together with the prsctice of the latter, will bors say that she had not washed her enable anyone to lire a healthy life ami From 1803 to 1820, the llussians sent face tor thirty or iorty years before become physically well developed, thus out several exploring expeditious, and, it her death. 8ome people are always complainlaying the foundation of a sound, active is claimed, succeeded iu peuetrating a ing of the moral degeneracy ol our mind. There are prople who eay they considerable distance within tlie Antarctimes. Obviously they have never can see no benefit arising from the study tic circle. read the social history of their own In 1817, the French again renewed the of each subjects ai physiology and hycountry. Not half a century ago giene. - I will stty to such, You are far work o( discovery in the South Seas, and drunkenness was encouraged by all behind the prescut age." Cannot see any sent out au expedition under Monsieur classes. An old adage says: value in studying and understaulng sub- I) Freyclnet. lie collected considerable Us who goes to bed. and goes to bed sober. Falls na th leave do. and dice In October jects that enable you to lead a healthy valuable information, but the vessel was But be who goes to bed, aud goes to bod life and teach jour children how to do wrecked la ruturuiug home. mellow, the same I Some one says, Let others Dumont dUrv ille, Captain Wilkes, and Lina rs he ought to do, snd dies s good leilow. study ami find out the plan of living, and Captain Boss all penetrated within the In the good old times this ad ageap I say no ; be not Antarctic circle and made several discovset us the example. nave been regarded ns gospel to Eears Classes, satisfied with what others tell you, but eries. Dumont and Wilkes and, in spite of hard sighted the test everything yourself. Make the .land which now bears the name of Victo- drinking, many tipplers lived to old knowledge your own.' This .brings .to ria Land and Bosh skirted Its borders for age. Thers is now in England a famous mind a saying I have often heard, If a distance of PH) miles. New York minister who began life as you want a thing done well do - It yourIn 1822, Captain Smith and Captaiu a blacksmith in Yorkshire. Tills is self." ; Weddell, English navigators, readied the the Rev. Robert Collyer, who says Coming now tQ the analysis of the men- seventy-fourt- h that the way to the age of 80 is to be parallel ami discovered tal division of education, it limy bo di- kcv eral Islands, temperate, virtuous, and to keep on w w hich among He is jrc the the sunny sido of the hedge. vided into the following, heudiugs, or South Shetland, O remiss and Earvc. himself considerably over 60, and deunder the following sciences brought Iu 1830, Captain IUscoc penetrated as clares that hs has never been ill for a Psycology, together with logic,, elides, He attributes his good health south a the sixty-nintfar paraUdl and day.the and Iu order that more of my fact that be was reared to discovered Emlerbys Land. on oatmeal and milk, and he clatms readers may thoroughly understand the For the last fifty years there has been to have never hud indigestion in his analysis, I w R1 define the sciences which come under ineutal education. Psycolo- no voyages of discovery made in tlie life. On th other baud, Carlyle lived to gy, or mental science, as it is sometimes south, or at least, none of any note. be 83, had the dyspepsia all his life, in 1S74, the Challenger went Into the snd never lived on the sunny side of termed, treats of or deals w ith the operations of the uiiud. By a knowledge of Antarctic Ocean, but only to ascertain the hedge at all. English Ex. tills science, wo can understand how we where would le tlie most av ailable points Deserves n Monument. receive knowledge, and better understand for observing tlie coming transit of Vehow to Impart knowledge to others. We nus. It visited Victoria Land, but made At the pension office the following may read tho thoughts of others by com- no discoveries and no observations of letter, received some lime ago, is now paring the expressions worn by them at any importance, built demonstrated the made public for the first time: Dresden, Mo., April 17, 1880. Hon, fact that what had taken sailing vessels any time with oor own expressions. C. Clack, Commissioner of Pensions. J. Ctmlu now btD. C.: Sir You will please Logic Is tlie science that treats of cor- - j aZn'MS'to pen'Ci-Washington, I in a Ivh rrtus X: a - cot iiferf-.- . . a reasoning. IN cryoue should lie able plW'Pd. with modern steam to reason correctly, and to know that he ievv days with compnimive cu-- c, am 270,772, issued to me on account ol diseased eyes. I winh to surrender , . lias drawn Ida conclusions front correct safety. and the Antosloaiw con I the cert'ficate for the reason that premises. ot eyes bn recOver-Adis to such Ethics is the science of moral philoso- template a new evpislition to the sooth j n OACCtlU LlUftt : i HUL M Ok OUC Itlt phy, while aesthetics treats of the beauti- pole, and If they only carry it into execu- from performing ordinary manual ful in nature. It Is through this that we tion, they will undoubtedly make many labor. discoveries that w ill be of benefit to sciHoping that my disease of eyes may obtain all oar happiness. not return, I am, very respectfully, a Is Land Vlctoiia Whether entists. ho corabove the to Taking premises NklsOX Faixti.R. Signed rect, it !s readily seeu that my definition continent or only a large Island is, as yet, This man deserves a monument. of the subject is bread enough to cover ituknown, but this could undoubtedly be the whole gronnd. That is, that educa- determined by an expedition sent out for A Convincing Argument. tion geeks to develop the powers of tlie that purpose, properly equipped with Know dat ciirvligious niggah Idas child, so as to render him able and dis- modern appliances. Snodgrass? No vessel ever wetit prepared to spend Sho null." posed to lead a healthy, happy, and morw w Got converted de odder dsy. ally worthy life. The hole being should a inter in the south polar region as they You doan mean Hi Who done it? be developed harmoniously ; that is, each have dons tu the north, Tho dangers do "Absalom Jenkins. Then Lias got nature child's should uot seem to lie so great neat the south as ter compound part of a Iajvs he dar argifyin, an be developed In harmony one w ith the the north pole, at Bast we cannot find wanfc no truf in de b:blo, jyidsays Abs'lom a I consider record of would vessels being caught or ho say dev were, an finally Abslom ivcrv doing other. I any wrong to assist in developing the mental crashed iu the ice there a has been the convinced im. Well, well! F.f dat doan beat all and physical powers of a child whom I case In the northern regions, but perhaps Ter think of Lias Snodgrass boin con knew to he morally bad ; lwcansc 1 w ou'.d this parjiaiiv arises from the fact Unit v erred1 How did Abe.'i'om lrce'iin l' iu the southMor: hantTi av-'- .. i Wid a razier. only bo placing within his grasp more there has been fewer -. power to enable hint to further his wich- ern than the uoitLuu sea.h or - v. d ,. ve-ei- s . .in r Rebuking a Rowdy. The Etiquette of Introductions I dont think tho following anecdote There aesms to be a growing ten lea-of Tom Marshal! lias ever been in print. on the part of the average American It was related to me the other day out a toward vrnat I may be pardoned for true occurrence: calling the anonymous or incog, introWhile making a speech somewhere, duction. Tub lmrodueticra geueially Marshall was greatly annoyed by ac tart off in a foriunma strain that, if overly demonstrative man, who was kept up throughout tlie rec.tal, would continually breaking in with untimely herald the names cf both parties to the n contradic- uttermost parts of the earth. Then the applause and tions. Finally the speaker could stand puino aud diminuendo strains como in. it no longer, anil, stopping abruptly, he Thin is the reason we are acquamtod w th so tunny people whose names we said: Coroe here a gnonicnt, my friend, if do not know. A man steps up to you in a crowd somewnere in one of those you please. With an undaunted air the offender quiet little town meet.ngs wners it is a maik of great conversational gen. us made his way to the platform, grinning to talk stuud.lv onward w.thout using as the aisle and winking to those along the m.'jju), , iyi sjvs; "R.irdou me. I he went forward want to make you pe ac ju.t ne X .il1 ed. . vh x Arc p,f ' v frl.r, v.t, nid Marshall, in a stern tone, looking You are both friends of nuno. Mr. There, now. you the man straight in thq eye. re acquainted!1' vloh I i.i' 5. "Why a man should write a long litterous fellow, with a leer at the patri- ter and write it plainly, sign ng it si the end with a name that would hare archs on the platform. Daniel to decipher, is more What! said Marshall, apparently bottisreJ 1 You dont than can und'rstan'L II is the same shocked to the marrow. as the anonymous stile of mean to say that you do not read the introductpeculiarity on exactly. I may to a little bible that grat book of books the careless about my penmanship while beacon of all our hopes? Do you stand wr.t ng iu a great hurry, tiy.ng to keep there in broad dai light and tell me, up with my surg ng thoughts, but I without a blush, that you do not read most always sign my name so thatlet-it I have written can to the sacred scroll that is our only safe- ters whore the signature was the only guard against the snares of perdition? thing that was absolutely leyond the Do you confess before this multitude poss.b ty of doubt. But it a man that you have never reiul tho inspired signs his name so that you can write to Word of tho Moat High. Is that what him and a.,k him what the balance of his letter was about, it is bettor than a )OU mean to say? beautiful letter from an unknown long, No, sir; I have read it. and unknowable person. In tho latter Oh, you have! have you? case, you are left to kick the empty a:r. Soma day when I got more time, I Yes, sir, I have. am going to pieparo a long treatise upAnd when was that, pray? on etiquette, and deliver it to the Oh, Ive read it lots of times, off and Amer.can people, illustrated by one of on. those stereopt com. Etiquette has When you were a little boy, I sup- been a study forme. It is a pose? thing that has engrossed my nttontion Yes, but I've read it heaps of timss from my earliest boy hood, and it shows Itself at onoo In my polished manners sinco. curr ago. and Youre quite sure of it? our American At tables Yes, sir. people uood a great deal of training. Then you ought to remember some- Whenever I go 1 ara Etruek with our As a thing about it. Let us see if you do. ad need of careful tra mng. Who was it went to the Savior by night? country', wo need careful instruction in our manners, more especially at hotel. Can you tell me that? at the table d'hote, Only the other No, sir; thats slipped my memory, I heard a man day, ask for half a dozen w a to I never was orth cent remember buckwheat cakes, and when they cams names. to him ho moistened the tips of his finWas it Fharaoh? gers in a finger bowl and ran over the cakos as ho would a roll of currency, I dont believe it was. for he was tho assistant cashier in a Was it Ilevod? national bank. Another man at the No, it wasn't him. same table was asked o pass tho pepWas it Xicodemus? per box and ho took it with hts thumb on the bottom and hts first two fingers '.That's the feller. on the top, just as he had been in tlie What did be want? The fellow scratched his head and habit of moving a stack of chips from the aco to tho douce, no doubt, for looked thoughtful for a minute or two, years. said: and then So we see people crowd onr vocaI give it up Ive forgot all about tions to the front, and are not able to banish our trades and professions, evon it at the table. We should try to overHave you a bible at home? come this, and there are many other Yes sir. features cf our national etiquette which Then you must promise mo one thing we need to change. will you do it? Only last woek I saw a fine looking What is it? young man sit at the hotel table combWhen you get home I want you to ing bis moustacho with his fork, and while in a browu study the fork slipped take your bible and hunt up the chapout of the moustache and plunged with ter about Nicodemus and read it over a sickening jab into his eye. We canend. to Will not be too careful in our Intercourse carefully from beginning with moil to avoid all appearance cf you do it? evil. Yes, sir. Etiquetto always marks the true genAnd when you get the matter well tleman and makes him an object of fixed in your mind, I want yon to get curiosity, espeo.ejly at a hotel. When down on yonr knees and pray that you you soe a geutloman with whom you by are not acquainted you should look may be torn again, and thunder!" upon him w.tb genteel horror and shudHe wasnt troubled with any more in- der two times in rapid success, on. This will coavicco a stranger that yron have terruptions. Chicago Ledger. been roared with the greatest care and that your parents have taken special A Hard Town For Him. pains not to allow you to associate with A stranger who bad nothing more in vulgar people. I started out to say a few words about his looks to recommend him than a hair the folly of ind.slinct introductions and lip called at the Ninth Avenue Station wappy-jawed out I have signatures, yesterday and said to the sorgeant in wandered away, as I am apt to do and I apolog.zc, hoping that the genial and charge. If youll guarantee me $10 Ill go reader as she sits in hor Into a trance and toll you where to find boudo r, on this glorious mo nmg, looking more like a peri than anything else a prominent murderer. I an th nk of, will forgive me. Mill We don't want any murderers toAys, id Deto York Mercui y. day, tvas the reply. Give me $3 and Ill call up the Largest Sewer in the World. It is said there is now be ng built in spirit of Capt. Kidd, and have it point out two hank robbers. Washington, D. C., a sewer which is Couldn't do it. The bank robbery larger by seven feet than any other sewer in the world. Iu its smallest market is very dull just now. than the largest of tho Will you give mo $3 if I will tell part it is sewers in Paris. For over 2.00J feet it you who stole Charlio Ross?" i a c.rcular sewer of 22 feet in diamNo, sir. eter. There is connected witn it a Will you give me a dollar to tell yon sewer of 5,0o0 feet, or nearly ono mile A in length, of 2J feet in diameter. just how long you arc to live? locomotive palace-eaNo. and all, could be run through It w whispered the man, Til Say, d filculty. This enormous sewer is murderer for Nathan the give away intended to dra n the immense waterfifty cents. shed ly.ng to the north of the city'. BeDont want him. sides that it will carry to tho Iotomao all the contents of the smaller system Two shillings?" of sowers m tho northern part of the No. a year to Then you look rut for me! If I cant c:ty. It take probably the work. Tl.o boundary street some make it Ill got my living honestly sewer, with its o.oanecPug fyitems, When the next murder will cost when o imp.etod 07er JO, 00J. other way occurs look for me! I'll be there! Hist! Medical Sewi. Latter in the. day he was arrested for Tho Fortification Bill vagrancy, and as he was locked up ho A tramp entered a Wash in yton saconfidentially remarked to tho jauitor: and blanaly asked loon the other Im going into a trace now. Corns the bartender: day here with a quarter by and by ami Ill Can you tell roa, s r. if congress has givo you a pointer on tho end of the passe tho foit.fsvation b 11? world. Its straight business with me, Woli, aposen it has or hasnt, and I cap. give you a mile start of every- whats that got to do with oil?" On, notmtig much, only I fesl a body else. Hist! Not a word! Got your good deal run doan, and would I ke to duds packed! Detroit Free Press. fortify a Rule, I th"ught mebbe. m case epmgress ha made an Mercantile Notes. you irnglit fortify mo about 10 Overshoes are Incwasing in popular- coats worth and charge it to tivs w.ll fortify Your forty-ro- d ity hut eits are being pulled down & well ax an;th ng cho, ?o dun't hr,,id gae?a!ly- - ate quiet, with glue out the coal Uo.t.o. at li until tliO Giu iatc k T'uc b: r lender was ai out to h.imi wines arc strong, but sponges are at a out hie best bung starter when the great discount. Naval stores arc slow tramp inado a hunied exit. l'czas and buyers of tar have difficulty to g"t Stjltuge. their stock off their hands. Tobacco is Whatllo Took. strong and dealer arc apparently up to A gcntiemaa gieaiiy interest" I in snuff. Hops have becomo lively shice eo'lecting rtntistios of cr mes and cr the discovery of new parasites, blit what ouco v Sited a pcmto.it ary for effect the jo w ill have on the license the purpoe of cuert.oTng tho convicts question remains to be seen. The trade w.th regard to thoir oe ur at o is before in hardware aud metal possesses considentering upon a careir of or. me. Tins rather d Ci nil to effect, owing to erable latent elasticity, cowddcring tlie was the rig'd enforcement of the uilo d much of the fact that the workmen are coiivurhat on wilh the prison-erLug time on the str.kc. Dealers have not lie ui 1. boo ever, manage to put the brass to advance the rates, and the a question or two to one more ones would copper the convict. What was vonr oeepnt on before chance of such a result. Many descripcame toie. wnhpjr-tha sUt.a tion of goods are oil the shelf, but yon t.c im,r. some dealers anger a chance for the I we in a bani better, hut as this cannot to at pre- i!5 d ; .o i tv :e a cVr-a- li p1 . .V , 1 . . L a j mm;, ' rendered any paoer it only adze to the rtry ioud-spoke- . . . th-s- f- 1 j j life-lon- g easy-runn.n- g espi-oial.- still-bor- r. d th-o- com-plot- o v appr.-.pr.a-tio- n, t. I ! for-b.- a. d uncutauitv. j.hirvU Fixe I'rctx .. JL ' - HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Tlie Concord Grape; S)rirs,-(.e.- d Boil meat slowly. It is more tender. The hoitn ultimata of Boston and Meat put in sour milk will keep Vicinity, held a meeting recently to days. commemorate the introduction of the To seale fish dip them In hot water. Concord grape, and a testimonial was Salt increases the heat lu boiling po. bestowed upon E. W. Bull, of Concord, tatoes. If meat bakes too fast cover w,t through whose experiments this buttciefi paper. grape originated. Mr. Bull told Do not put salt in gravy till it is dons the story of the grape in this wise: You ask me how I got the Concord? or it will cardie. At the loot of a wooded hill with a Uns'acked Line near meat preserve) south aspect, a wooded sod and shel- it bv ke ping the air dry. ter from all winds coming from the Ilaif a cup of vinegar in water will north of east and of wet,the lull com- make an obi fowl cook quickly. Hawthorne's the down at road to ing When bread will not retain th dent the west and on to the Wayside of the finger it is ready for the ovsn. Bame road about 1,500 feet east of the Mush to fry will brown better if tho Wayside, forming an amphitheater rsJi. nsi of w'inen the roau formed t.io chord 'j meal is mixed l fi.!1 to rhf poured into boding water. While Cake One cup of butter, two grape being piesciit, I expected to grow grapes to perf.'Ction without dif- cup of sugar, one cup ot sweet milk, ficulty, but this hone was doomed to the whies of five egg, three cups of disappoint nn nt; the late and early Hour, two teaspoons of cream tartar, frosts incident to the valley of the one teaspoon of saleratus. Concord made it impossible to ripen Squash Biscuit Two enps of sifted any grape thtn in cultivation. The squash, one cup of yeast, two each of sugar, butter and thought occurred to me that it might bu possible to improve the native milk. Salt to taste. Knead with flour giape by reproduction by seed, and 1 ke bread and set to rise over night. looked about for the best grape winch Bake iu a quick oven in biscuit tot met the necessary conditions of hardi- breakfast ness, vigorous growth, size of berry One pint of Convenient measure and bunch, early ripening, and, with dour is called a pound, a tablespoonful these conditions, as good flavor of butter is an ounce,, a level cupful of as the wild grape affords. Ait the sifted sugar is half a pound, but for the menloot of the lull before pulverized sugar, which is lighter, the tioned a woodland path, leading to must be heaped Tery high. One the liver, debouched into the open cup of finely chopped meat is estimated pint space, and there I found an accidental as a pound. seedling, which in 1843 bore its first Wide Awake Pic One cup of sugar, crop. It was very full of fruit, hand one cup of molasses, cup of some and sweet, and the whole crop-d- ead s water, and vinegar, cup to fallen had the ground ripe tlie s ze of an egg. Simmer before August went out. Here was butter them then add one cup of I these my opportunity. planted cracker, powdered cinnamon, once ami got many vines, nutmeg and raisins.allspice, grapes at Bake with two mod of them harsh and wild, but one crusts. s two Th makes pies. of them bore a single bunch which 1 Banana Charlotte This is simple and found ripe on the lStli of September, The sides of a quart mold 1810, bix years from the sowing refreshing. of the seed. Tina was the Concord. aro to be lined with sponge caks, and When I found t1 at I had at- the bottom of the mold with thin slices tained such a gratifying success at of banana. Fill the mold with stiff Set it as de In tlie ico a. leap, so to speak, I resolved tc whipped cream. 11 continue my efforts, m the hope of es- box 1. wanted. Remove carefully from the mold and serve. tablishing tho vineyard in Massachu Black Cake Two cup of sugar, one which been had found impossi-o!setts, up to that time. In this I have cup of iuolases, one cup of m lk, one succeeded, and in establishing a strain cup of butter, three eggs, one teaspoonof seedlings giving new grapes to the ful of soda, one teaspoonful of c.nna-moof cloves, one one country almost yearly. The marvel ous success of the Concord, its adapt- Dutmeg, five cups of flour, one pound of currants, ability to all soils and climates where of raisins, one pound pound of citron. This cake grapes can be grown, its patient en- will keep good several months. durance of neglect, its wonderful ler Baked Cucumbers Pare the cucumtility in ordinary soils, and its habit of giving the country seedlings of val- bers, chop them fine w.th a small onion: ue justify and explain the general ac- put them on w th very little water ana ceptance and foreshadow tho time stew for ten minutes. Prepare a rich when we shall have, of our own stock, dressing as for poultry of bread crumb w th herbs and yolk of egg; pour off' grapes equal to those of Euiope. all tho water from the cucumbers; add the dressing and one tablespoonful of butter and bake in a de 'p dish. Facts About Rivers. The explorations of recent years R'ce Mold During the heated term, have considerably changed our no dosseris which can be prepared befors tion3 of tho comparative rank of th hand aud eaten cold are the most in favor, and among them, the following gi eat rivers of the world. If we class will be found to be useful: Wa.h s x rivers according to their length, both ounces of rice and put to steam in one must and the Nile and tho Yangtse-Kianp nts of m lk, H aces-ar- v a httle more milk may be addod be named before the Amazon. Tlie if this becomes absorbed Dcforo the Niles 4,000 miles of waterway from rieo is tender. When done, add fonr its headwaters south of Lake Victoria tnblespoonfuls of sugar if desired. to tlie Mediterranean make it the Beat tho rice smooth with wooden largest river in the world, nearly as spoon, and press into cups previously long as the Mississippi and Missouri net with cold water. When cold, serve together, and about 1,000 miles with a simple custard for dressing, or ' longer than the Amazon. The Ama- with fruit sirup. zon is the greatest river in the world, Pickle Cucumber select Always because it lia immense tributaries, very small cucumbers for pickling. some of them larger than the Danube One hundred green cucumbers about or the Rhine, by means of which the two inches long will fill four glass quart Amazon basin covers an urea about jars. 8oak twentv-fmi- r hours in rather 1,000,000 square miles greater than strong brine. Then pour off the brine, Tho that of any other river. Congo and liase in clear water. To this numRiver is the fourth longest river in the ber of encumbers use three quarts of world, but in the volume of water pure cider vinegar, one cup of sugar, that it pours into the ocean it is sec- one ounce of whole cloves, one ounce ond only to the Amazon. of stick cinnamon, ono ounce of small, A very curious thing has been dis- black peppers, a little horseradish, covered about, the three greatest river si co 1, and a few small, red pepper. basins in South America the Orino- Scald the cucumbers in the vinegar. As co, the Amazon, and the Plate basins. soon as the v negar is scalding hot, dip It has been found that they are sc them out,' till tiie can, and then pour connected by watercourses that the tho vinegar over them till the cat is fulL traveller can pass in steamboats or Seal hot. canoes from one river system into anBril Fritters Put a pieoo of butter other. He can ascend the Orinoco the size of an a of water, nlil he let it bo 1 a fewegg mo pint River for hundreds of m'' thicken it very minutes, comes to the (as ri, on with a pint of flour. Lot it c which he can tra about smoothly remain a short time on the fire, stirtwo hundred miles to me Rio Negro, it all tho while so that It or.o of the largest tributaries of the ring notcarefully stick to the b ttom of the stew-paAmazon. Floating down to the Ama- may pour it into a wooden or chin zon, and then descending that river lor set ilaway to become cold. About some distance, he can ascend the great' bowl; one before yonr dinner is to be In its upper servedhour Maderia tributary. add live breaking one at ft course he can turn into the Mamote, time, and beat egg, all the time until tho then into the Guapore, then into the is very light Tut a pint of lard little Alegre Ruer. Here, as it, o"en dough in a frying pan and let it com? to a boil; his haul canoeover can a he low, then done, drop tho fritters in so that they grassy flat about two miles wide and shall be small, and fry them brown; launch It into the Rio Agoapehy, and should puff up very much and be then descend by the Jauru and Para- they To to served with boiled mocrisp. guay to Buenos Ayers and 'he Plate lasses. wine and powdered sugar or River. The Alegre and Agoapehy French sauce. Rivers, head streams of two mighty systems, llow side by side for twenty The Fly As a Purifier. or thirty miles, and many of their Of what use is this troublesome cusbranches are separated by a few hundred yards. tomer? The fly does his part in tbs Mr. Wells, the engineer whom Brazil great and important work of purificahad employed for years in its railroad tion, with his tea thousand eyes seeing in many places the Biirveys, says that would that things pass unnoticed by us, of could the Amazon basin easily be connected with that of thcPlateRivei eagerly devouring his appropriate food. by canals, and communication by This he finds in the smallest atoms of water would thus be rendered com an mal and vegetable matter, to bo noticed by the tidy housekeepers, plete from one system to the other. which otherwise would bo permitted to putrefy, contaminating tiie air. W A Horses Far l'or Music. may imagine that ho circles about in The New Orleans Picayune tells how the air with no definite object in viow, a horse was pacified by religious but if we w.ll carefully watch h;m w obhymns: A minister named M. C., who shall be convinced that he has an Imhas since passed into innocuous des- ject, eellecting his food, atoms of or decaying matter which otheruetude by falling from grace, had a pure wise would enter our lungs, adding to circif in southern Indiana. The the impurity of o"r blood. Thbi filsh horse he rode was a spirited animal is collected on his wings and head, for let a blacksmith shoe as we see h nv iigvHhe scrapes hiiTR Vugs and him. The preacher w a a great reviv- and hi3 head with' his legs and foet, alist and singer of revival songs not-t- a passing ,.be,gattorad.mr9'',ft from foci vtyr r,v3 "pov.rt u.s'oag, .iifact. a to foot, tho front pair passing his dinsmith in the county ccat, the cen- ner to his mouth. The fly also leaches ter of the circuit, learning that the Ps the value of sunlight, not only to but to purify tho air, for he has preachers horse would not be cheer shod, meeting the divine one day, too good sense o live m a dark room. It youll bring that horse When the parlor is darkened ho seeks ft said: to my shop and follow rry decent place for his release. Allentom I instructions I'll shoe him all round, (Pit.) National Educator, and it won't cost you a cent. Accordingly the pi eat her was on time at Clirystftls. 0 the smiths shop with his refractory blondes make rather starch steed, and after the animal had been edBleached old maids. divested of saddle, blankets and all is said to bo nothing Auight-mar- e but the bridle, the smith said: Now. hold tlie ho: se Jjy the rein, close to the but an old horse chestnut. bridle-bit- , and sing one of your liveliIf pity is akin to love, what relation est s to a songs, and when i small-pothat is ended strike up another, and suit? kenp on .singing until I finish shoeing Blue laws mav suit Connecticut, but the horse. Tlie jneaeherobeyed, and, are good enough for tho g rls-astoni.-iiiiicof to the all, the animal The was passive until the work was com- for his tramp can quote Shakespeare Ilia little lif I pleted. As the blacksmith clinched rounded purpose, club. a with Sew York !m the last nail dropped tlie animal's Morning Journal. ,ri here, I knew vou loot, exclaiming: cou'.i stij rcijtvm into that horse. t A comic paper i the fruit at cons fits' d ls 1 f -- I one-fourt- h two-third- on',-h.i- lf t n; too-smal- camp-meetin- g x broach-of-promis- s nt Uoiiil liberty in Bulg-irU- , v PS li k n il a |
